Donald Trump has figured much in my posts lately. And it irks me. Why am I wasting so much of my time on a vulgar…

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed…

One of the many curiosities about American Christianity is how a godless man like Donald Trump has managed to gain more devoted support from white…

On Tuesday a gutsy lady in Washington spoke truth to power. At a church service in Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann E. Budde preached a…

Any commitment the United States may have had to a rules-based international order has been sabotaged by President Trump. As far as he is concerned,…

U.S. presidents warning the American people about perceived threats in their farewell addresses has a long history. In fact it began with their first president.…

Since the U.S. presidential election, I have had to pinch myself occasionally to believe I’m still in the real world. It just gets more and…

On December 29th, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died in Plains, Georgia at the ripe old age of 100. As the new year replaces the…

In a recent post I discussed how an alienating communication environment helped elect Donald Trump. A number of other factors have been accused of contributing…

President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…

How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…

Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…